Sample Sentences for
capital
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

capital as in:  invested capital

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    But there is enormous value in what economists call social capital.  (source)
    capital = wealth
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    "Perhaps you are looking for access to some …. capital?" he ventured.  (source)
    capital = material wealth
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    We do this with no capital except our valuable time.  (source)
    capital = money or other things of material value that could be used to create something else of value
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    Dad had decided it would be easier, as he put it, to accumulate the capital necessary to finance the Prospector if he hit the casinos for a while.  (source)
    capital = material wealth
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    The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity.  (source)
    capital = things of value used to produce other things of value
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    In the ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their total capital; yet they laid it unhesitatingly against Matthewson's six hundred.  (source)
    capital = material wealth
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    It released our energy; and energy, rather than quickness or great capital, was what we possessed.  (source)
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    And each one thought how with some capital he could get a new start.  (source)
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    If I had capital and a theater, I wouldn't want a better lay-out than that—and here we've gone and sold 'em for a song.  (source)
    capital = money or other things of material value that could be used to create something else of value
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    That was when I learned the value of real social capital.  (source)
    capital = wealth
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    In making this suggestion, the old Greek paused ever so briefly before the word capital.  (source)
    capital = material wealth
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    But for you it will be a trebling of your capital.  (source)
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    My education in social capital continues.  (source)
    capital = wealth
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    I got a report last week from Hamachi's representative in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.  (source)
    capital = main city of the government
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    "You know rape's a capital offense in Alabama," said Atticus.  (source)
    capital = punishable by death
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    The kid was dressed in a rumpled gray jumpsuit with the word INMATE stenciled in capital letters across the back.  (source)
    capital = uppercase
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    I'll have you before a capital court martial.  (source)
    capital = important
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    Then they marched and gathered by hill and valley, going ever by tunnel or under dark, until around and beneath the great mountain Gundabad of the North, where was their capital, a vast host was assembled ready to sweep down in time of storm unawares upon the South.  (source)
    capital = main city of the government
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    It was the capital letter A. By an accurate measurement, each limb proved to be precisely three inches and a quarter in length.  (source)
    capital = an uppercase letter
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    San Jose was the capital, just twenty minutes away by air.  (source)
    capital = main city of the government
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    Change it so that only judges have the power of fixing the penalty in capital cases.  (source)
    capital = punishable by death
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    He didn't want his uniform to get drenched, so he waited under the eaves, directly beneath the capital P in COCONUT COVE PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT.  (source)
    capital = uppercase
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    I know it's not right, but I can't figure out what's wrong— maybe rape shouldn't be a capital offense….  (source)
    capital = punishable by death
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    In Maycomb County, hunting out of season was a misdemeanor at law, a capital felony in the eyes of the populace.  (source)
    capital = major
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    …absence of any corroborative evidence, this man was indicted on a capital charge and is now on trial for his life….  (source)
    capital = punishable by death
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    He was almost jogging as he scribbled his stubby capital letters.  (source)
    capital = uppercase
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